I rented a car last weekend that had something similar to this and it didn’t work when I was wearing sunglasses. As soon as I put them on it said on the dashboard that I needed to take the sensor to service it or something along those lines.
Tangential, but I’ve never seen so many people fiddling with their phones while driving as I did in the US. It was pretty worrying.
Gamepass devalued games in my opinion. If you “train” your user base to get used to not buy games they will. It also did not help they were almost giving Gamepass away for nothing. You could chain multiple offers and get like 3 years or more of the best tier for the price of less than 2 games.
They never had the user base to sustain so many studios making AAA games under a subscription model.
I read that when they designed the Xbox Series S and X they knew it was going to be difficult to lower prices down the road because wafer costs were increasing every year. Which is why they launched with 2 models from the get go, one cheaper than the other. And even so they were losing between 100 and 200 dollars per console.
Now things are even worse with the RAM and SSD components crisis. The Series S has now the price of the Series X when it launched.
I think they mean on console, which has become increasingly difficult, there are a number of PS5s that can do it but that’s only because those were at older firmware versions as far as I know. The majority of the consoles are incapable of that unless other vulnerabilities are found.
I would prefer a Studio if it does a decent enough job even if throttles a bit under load, way less power usage and noise than those GPUs plus the PC you need to put those in.
In the hopes of selling more consoles and that didn’t work.
Not sure if you have seen the recent news but things are not looking great there. Gamepass is not making them a lot of money at all. Even after acquiring Activision their operating margin is 3%
Big layoffs / studio closures coming in July, on top of the previous ones.